Friday, July 10, 2015

Lord Janner quietly dropped from top positions in community organisations

Lord Janner has been quietly dropped from top positions he held in several of the community’s biggest organisations, as prosecutors prepare for a “trial of the facts” court case to hear allegations of child sex abuse.

The Labour peer has been “suspended” from his role as Honorary Patron of the Holocaust Education Trust (HET), which he co-founded, while his involvement with the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) and the Community Security Trust (CST) has also come to an end in recent weeks.

He has also been dropped from smaller organisations, such as the Commonwealth Jewish Council, while others, such as the Jewish Museum, said that his position was “under review”. (more...)